The Kyeema airline crash occurred on 25 October 1938 when the Australian National Airways Douglas DC-2 Kyeema, tail number VH-UYC, flying from Adelaide to Melbourne, commenced final approach to Essendon Airport through heavy fog and crashed into the western slopes of Mount Dandenong, also known as Mount Corhanwarrabul, killing all 18 on board instantly.

As it entered the area around Melbourne, it came across a heavy cloud layer, extending from 1,500 to 400 feet (460 to 120 m) and making landmark navigation difficult.

Instead, they overshot Essendon and, unable to see through the heavy fog, crashed into Mount Dandenong a few hundred metres from the summit.

There were 18 people on board the DC-2: 14 passengers, the captain, the first officer, an air hostess, and a cadet pilot who operated the radio during the flight.

Crew: Captain Mick Webb, Junior Captain Allan Steen, Radio operator/ cadet Philip Pring, Air Hostess Elva Jones Passengers: Charles Hawker MHR, Leonard Abrahams KC, Sidney Hill Smith, Cecil Gain, Gordon Goddard, Lance Shirley, James Massie, Vaughan Pate, Tom Hardy, George Ling, Hugo Gramp[3] By public demand, a Royal Commission into the cause of the disaster was established, and the Australian Federal Government appointed an Air Accident Investigation Committee, under the chairmanship of Colonel Thomas Murdoch DSO, with the public enquiry commencing on 30 October 1938.